A Field Guide to Western Trees: Western United States and CanadaThis handbook covers all the native trees of the western side of the United States and Canada, plus those introduced and now commonly found in the region. The 400 species featured live in habitats ranging from mountains and deserts to grasslands. The most usual landscape trees are also included. |
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... cypress family . Lumber is in demand for boats , building construction , fence posts , and matchwood . A large number of ornamental varieties are cul- tivated in Europe and around the world . Often called Lawson- cedar or Lawson - cypress ...
... cypress family . Lumber is in demand for boats , building construction , fence posts , and matchwood . A large number of ornamental varieties are cul- tivated in Europe and around the world . Often called Lawson- cedar or Lawson - cypress ...
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Western United States and Canada George A. Petrides. MODOC CYPRESS Cupressus bakeri Jeps . Not shown A scarce cypress of local , rather infertile sites in n . Calif . and sw . Ore . Leaves 1/16 in . long , dark green , each with an ...
Western United States and Canada George A. Petrides. MODOC CYPRESS Cupressus bakeri Jeps . Not shown A scarce cypress of local , rather infertile sites in n . Calif . and sw . Ore . Leaves 1/16 in . long , dark green , each with an ...
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... CYPRESS Cupressus arizonica Twigs thin , wide - angled Cypresses Native to Restricted Areas in California / sw . Oregon5 ( TECATE CYPRESS Cupressus guadalupensis ) Trunk red - brown , smooth , peeling Major distribution1 Foliage in flat ...
... CYPRESS Cupressus arizonica Twigs thin , wide - angled Cypresses Native to Restricted Areas in California / sw . Oregon5 ( TECATE CYPRESS Cupressus guadalupensis ) Trunk red - brown , smooth , peeling Major distribution1 Foliage in flat ...
Contents
How to Use This Book | 1 |
Conebearing Trees with Needlelike or Scalelike | 18 |
Broadleaved Trees with Opposite Compound | 74 |
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Acorns ALDER Ariz Baja California blunt bracts branchlets brown Buckthorn bud scales bundle scars Calif California Scrub Oak canyons catkins Cercocarpus Cherry coastal Cypress dark deciduous deer diameter 1-2 Douglas-firs drooping ELDERBERRY elevation end buds evergreen fine-toothed flat fleshy foliage Fruit pods glands gray green greenish hairy beneath Height to 20 JUNIPER leaf bases Leaf edges leaf scars Leafstalks leathery lens lobed long-pointed MAPLE mature Mexican Mexican Pinyon Mexico minor leaflets mountains narrow Native Native Americans needles Oak Pl Pacific pairs Pine pith plant Plate Ponderosa Pine prickly Rocky seeds shiny short-pointed shreddy shrubby Similar species simple leaves slender slopes small tree smooth soils sometimes Species and remarks SPRUCE spur branches stalks SUMAC teeth Texas thorns tips toothed TREES WITH ALTERNATE Trunk bark Twigs Twigs hairless Twigs hairy usually veins western Western Redcedar whitish wide WILLOW winged woody yellow YUCCA